Deep Learning-aided Application Scheduler for Vehicular Safety Communication

802.11p based V2X communication uses stochastic medium access control, which cannot prevent broadcast packet collision, in particular during high channel load. Wireless congestion control has been designed to keep the channel load at an optimal point. However, vehicles' lack of precise and granular knowledge about true channel activity, in time and space, makes it impossible to fully avoid packet collisions. In this paper, we propose a machine learning approach using deep neural network for learning the vehicles' transmit patterns, and as such predicting future channel activity in space and time. We evaluate the performance of our proposal via simulation considering multiple safety-related V2X services involving heterogeneous transmit patterns. Our results show that predicting channel activity, and transmitting accordingly, reduces collisions and significantly improves communication performance.